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		<title>By: John Crippen</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/118488#comment-915157</link>
		<dc:creator>John Crippen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Legacy of George W Bush (A Collection of Conflicting Opions) ISBN-13  9781441455437

The debate over George W Bush is probably the most visceral debate of our century. There often seems to be no in between. Folks either love him or hate him. As we approach the inauguration of Barrack Obama, the internet has been bombarded with opinions ranging from one extreme to the other. In this book is a collection of dialog from all over the world and every walk of life. In an eight hour period of time just prior to GWB stepping out of the White House, one that that rings true is that we live in an amazing country just to be able to have this conversation.


   Can a man's legacy be drawn from an eight year period in time? What kind of a footprint has GWB left on the American people, or the world for that matter? Has he served his country well by protecting us from terrorism, or has a alienated America from the rest of the world. What role did Christianity play under the leadership of George W Bush? Has he acted as a Christian in his role as President of the United States, or has he misused the Bible as a means of procuring votes and evoking war? Was the rebuilding of Iraq set in motion years before the Twin Towers tragedy, or was this a rapid decision based on an emergent circumstance? Did Iraq have
weapons of mass destruction, or should we have been focusing on catching Bin Ladin? What about North Korea and Proliferation of nukes in Iran? Was there miscommunication between the CIA and the FBI and why was Home Land Security restructured as it was? Were our civil rights violated by the Echelon Program? The list of questions will go on for an eternity and there will probably be more theories about the Bush Administration than the JFK assassination and the Watergate Scandal combined. 

I have tried to keep this debate as original as possible. That includes errors in grammar, punctuation and spelling. I have also tried to collect them in a somewhat chronological method in order to keep a level playing field. I have simply collected publicly posted comments of others from open sources with no expectation of privacy or concealment. This is simply a collection of what others have had to say. I have tried to eliminate
personal attack between the folks debating (or at least leaving out what I thought may be real names of folks) Some of the statements are redundant, just as they came down the pipeline. What ever your opinion of George W Bush Is.... This is a compelling, and somewhat disturbing read.</description>
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<p>The debate over George W Bush is probably the most visceral debate of our century. There often seems to be no in between. Folks either love him or hate him. As we approach the inauguration of Barrack Obama, the internet has been bombarded with opinions ranging from one extreme to the other. In this book is a collection of dialog from all over the world and every walk of life. In an eight hour period of time just prior to GWB stepping out of the White House, one that that rings true is that we live in an amazing country just to be able to have this conversation.</p>
<p>   Can a man&#8217;s legacy be drawn from an eight year period in time? What kind of a footprint has GWB left on the American people, or the world for that matter? Has he served his country well by protecting us from terrorism, or has a alienated America from the rest of the world. What role did Christianity play under the leadership of George W Bush? Has he acted as a Christian in his role as President of the United States, or has he misused the Bible as a means of procuring votes and evoking war? Was the rebuilding of Iraq set in motion years before the Twin Towers tragedy, or was this a rapid decision based on an emergent circumstance? Did Iraq have<br />
weapons of mass destruction, or should we have been focusing on catching Bin Ladin? What about North Korea and Proliferation of nukes in Iran? Was there miscommunication between the CIA and the FBI and why was Home Land Security restructured as it was? Were our civil rights violated by the Echelon Program? The list of questions will go on for an eternity and there will probably be more theories about the Bush Administration than the JFK assassination and the Watergate Scandal combined. </p>
<p>I have tried to keep this debate as original as possible. That includes errors in grammar, punctuation and spelling. I have also tried to collect them in a somewhat chronological method in order to keep a level playing field. I have simply collected publicly posted comments of others from open sources with no expectation of privacy or concealment. This is simply a collection of what others have had to say. I have tried to eliminate<br />
personal attack between the folks debating (or at least leaving out what I thought may be real names of folks) Some of the statements are redundant, just as they came down the pipeline. What ever your opinion of George W Bush Is&#8230;. This is a compelling, and somewhat disturbing read.</p>
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		<title>By: Lohengrin</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/118488#comment-819904</link>
		<dc:creator>Lohengrin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bloggernews.net/118488#comment-819904</guid>
		<description>Every concievable standard one wishes to apply finds Bush the Younger a failure.  Nixon was corrupt yet had some notable foreign policy achievements.  Buchannon's stubborness and incompetance led to the Civil War, yet he didn't drain the treasury.  Harding and Coolidge didn't lie the US into a bloody and protracted conflict.  Add arrogance, trampling of the Constitution, deracination of the Bill of Rights, torture, and now the bail out.  I'm sure I'm missing a few as I'm not even sure this reply will get posted.  Bush jr is the worst ever.  BTW, I am not a Liberal or Democrat.  I WAS a lifelong Republican and Conservitive who got duped into voting for him in 2000 (not 2004).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every concievable standard one wishes to apply finds Bush the Younger a failure.  Nixon was corrupt yet had some notable foreign policy achievements.  Buchannon&#8217;s stubborness and incompetance led to the Civil War, yet he didn&#8217;t drain the treasury.  Harding and Coolidge didn&#8217;t lie the US into a bloody and protracted conflict.  Add arrogance, trampling of the Constitution, deracination of the Bill of Rights, torture, and now the bail out.  I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m missing a few as I&#8217;m not even sure this reply will get posted.  Bush jr is the worst ever.  BTW, I am not a Liberal or Democrat.  I WAS a lifelong Republican and Conservitive who got duped into voting for him in 2000 (not 2004).</p>
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		<title>By: keith carnes</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/118488#comment-806951</link>
		<dc:creator>keith carnes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The mess he is leaving is scary, I'm 55 and live Waterford,Mi. and what him and buddies have done to region is treasonous. The banks and their friends took the money and ran, but the Big 3 get grilled and they have done alot wrong to. But we will have a depression if they keep screwing around in Washington. I don't work for the Big 3 but every business is effected. Thank You only 2 more months of boob from Texas</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The mess he is leaving is scary, I&#8217;m 55 and live Waterford,Mi. and what him and buddies have done to region is treasonous. The banks and their friends took the money and ran, but the Big 3 get grilled and they have done alot wrong to. But we will have a depression if they keep screwing around in Washington. I don&#8217;t work for the Big 3 but every business is effected. Thank You only 2 more months of boob from Texas</p>
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		<title>By: Snowflake</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/118488#comment-798461</link>
		<dc:creator>Snowflake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bush is the worst prez ever hands down. The USA is in a big mess right lacking behind in the economy, education, research and development, military, health care and a big loss in privacy and freedom.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bush is the worst prez ever hands down. The USA is in a big mess right lacking behind in the economy, education, research and development, military, health care and a big loss in privacy and freedom.</p>
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		<title>By: TIM BELL</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/118488#comment-794710</link>
		<dc:creator>TIM BELL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One thing is certain: the legacy left by President George W. Bush is indeed a kind of Armageddon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing is certain: the legacy left by President George W. Bush is indeed a kind of Armageddon.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Casey</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/118488#comment-755236</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim Casey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a serious student of American History over the past 50 years (Ph.D.), I honestly can't imagine how George W. Bush could avoid being ranked as the worst president in our nation's history.  The neglegence and ineptitude of Buchanan and Grant, the stupidity of Harding and Andrew Johnson, ineffectivenss of Hoover and Pierce  have been forever outclassed by the sheer arrogance, cruelty and recklessness of the administration of Bush 43.  Even Nixon looks good by comparison. We have not yet begun to uncover all of the corruption, human rights violations ranging from disenfranchising voters in 2000 to torture, warrentless wiretaps, and political prosecutions by the Justice Department and massive corruption related to no-bid contracts and war profiteering in Iraq by cronies of the White House.  His administration lied the country into a bloody, ruinous and totally wrongheaded war, wrecked our economy and squandered the outstanding opportunities we had to fight terror with the entire world behind us after 9/11. War crimes investigations may be necessary as the years go by and shatter any hope of historical revisionism in decades to come.  Notions that Bush 43 will become rehabilitated in the mode of Truman or Nixon presidencies are utterly preposterous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a serious student of American History over the past 50 years (Ph.D.), I honestly can&#8217;t imagine how George W. Bush could avoid being ranked as the worst president in our nation&#8217;s history.  The neglegence and ineptitude of Buchanan and Grant, the stupidity of Harding and Andrew Johnson, ineffectivenss of Hoover and Pierce  have been forever outclassed by the sheer arrogance, cruelty and recklessness of the administration of Bush 43.  Even Nixon looks good by comparison. We have not yet begun to uncover all of the corruption, human rights violations ranging from disenfranchising voters in 2000 to torture, warrentless wiretaps, and political prosecutions by the Justice Department and massive corruption related to no-bid contracts and war profiteering in Iraq by cronies of the White House.  His administration lied the country into a bloody, ruinous and totally wrongheaded war, wrecked our economy and squandered the outstanding opportunities we had to fight terror with the entire world behind us after 9/11. War crimes investigations may be necessary as the years go by and shatter any hope of historical revisionism in decades to come.  Notions that Bush 43 will become rehabilitated in the mode of Truman or Nixon presidencies are utterly preposterous.</p>
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		<title>By: Callum</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/118488#comment-740886</link>
		<dc:creator>Callum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It may be to early to make the call of Bush Being the worst.

Kennedy is still remembered fondly, even though his policies led to America's involvement in Vietnam.

Sadly, Johnson bears most of that burden, while people overlook his work on Civil Rights and poverty eradication.

I am no supporter of Bush, I was shocked when America elected him in the first place, but for history to make its judgments takes time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It may be to early to make the call of Bush Being the worst.</p>
<p>Kennedy is still remembered fondly, even though his policies led to America&#8217;s involvement in Vietnam.</p>
<p>Sadly, Johnson bears most of that burden, while people overlook his work on Civil Rights and poverty eradication.</p>
<p>I am no supporter of Bush, I was shocked when America elected him in the first place, but for history to make its judgments takes time.</p>
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		<title>By: Paddy Briggs</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/118488#comment-738482</link>
		<dc:creator>Paddy Briggs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1.	Kennedy
2.	Truman
3.	Clinton
4.	Reagan 
5.	Johnson
6.	Eisenhower 
7.	Carter 
8.	Bush Senior
9.	Ford
10.	Nixon
11.	Bush (W)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1.	Kennedy<br />
2.	Truman<br />
3.	Clinton<br />
4.	Reagan<br />
5.	Johnson<br />
6.	Eisenhower<br />
7.	Carter<br />
8.	Bush Senior<br />
9.	Ford<br />
10.	Nixon<br />
11.	Bush (W)</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/118488#comment-738304</link>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do you have to ask?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you have to ask?</p>
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		<title>By: Nancy Reyes</title>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/118488#comment-737427</link>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Reyes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, a 1.3 million Africans still live thanks to Mr. Bush.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1717934-1,00.html

If history is written by an African, his place might be seen differently...

As to the economic meltdown: That has roots that go back decades...and since it resembles the recession of Jimmy Carter (who has since become a pundit) I suspect in a couple years we will survive...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, a 1.3 million Africans still live thanks to Mr. Bush.<br />
<a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1717934-1,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1717934-1,00.html</a></p>
<p>If history is written by an African, his place might be seen differently&#8230;</p>
<p>As to the economic meltdown: That has roots that go back decades&#8230;and since it resembles the recession of Jimmy Carter (who has since become a pundit) I suspect in a couple years we will survive&#8230;</p>
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